Regional Mobilization in the ‘New Europe’: A Research Agenda

This Special Issue re-assesses regional mobilization in the ‘New Europe’. We anticipate that enlargement to Central Europe, the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the largest economic and financial crisis since the birth of the European Community have affected how regional governments respond to Europeanization along three different dimensions: (1) the position they take vis-à-vis the process of EU integration more generally, (2) the strategies they adopt in response to Europeanization pressures and (3) their internal structures and dynamics of the EU member states as multi-level states. The article introduces a framework and formulates hypotheses to examine why and how Europeanization pressures in the ‘New Europe’ affect regional mobilization along these three dimensions. In the final section, the article also introduces the various contributions to this Special Issue and relates them to the analytical framework.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Democratic Flaws
RICHARD BOURKE The Life and Death of Democracy, by John Keane. Flawed democracy
Gianfranco Pasquino Democracy Inc. Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, by Sheldon Wolin. Democracy in the Land of Good Things (Britain)
Richard Mullender Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty, by Peter Kellner. The soldier's right to kill
Christopher Finlay Killing in War, by Jeff McMahan. Facts from Eastern Europe and elsewhere
Richard Briand Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name, by Timothy Garton Ash. The soul of Tony Blair
Ilaria Favretto Losing Labour's Soul? New Labour and the Blair Government, 1997–2007, by Eric Shaw. Greeks and Turks in Europe and Cyprus
Mehmet Ugur Turkey's Accession to the European Union: An Unusual Candidacy, by Constantine Arvanitopoulos. Cyprus: The Post‐Imperial Constitution, by Vassilis K. Fouskas and Alex O. Tackie. Obama's last chance
Tony Klug The Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance, by David Gardner. Thatcher's grandchildren
Mark Garnett Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s, by Richard Vinen.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. The Real Story of the Romanian ‘Revolution’
SILVIA MARTON 1989 à l'est de l'Europe: une mémoire controversée, edited by Jérôme Heurtaux and Cédric Pellen. La mort des Ceau?escu: la vérité sur un coup d'Etat communiste, by Catherine Durandin and Guy Hoedts. A hedgehog approach to capitalism
Paul Auerbach 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha‐Joon Chang. A Scottish Salmond in a sea of banalities?
Tom Gallagher Salmond Against the Odds, by David Torrance. Israel: the politics of brute force
Geoffrey Bindman The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy. Heath: no need to be loved
Mark Garnett Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, by Philip Ziegler. The politics of rebellious music
Nico Pizzolato Reds, Whites and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music and Race in the United States, by William G. Roy. Lloyd George's wrong choices
Dick Leonard David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider, by Roy Hattersley. The constraints on American caesars
Richard Briand American Caesars: Lives of the American Presidents, from Franklyn D. Roosevelt to George Bush, by Nigel Hamilton. Faltering Habermas
Gianfranco Pasquino Europe: The Faltering Project, by Jürgen Habermas. Some light on the Prince of Darkness
Andrew Blick The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Mandelson. Trio: Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project, by Giles Radice.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The European Project: There Could Be Troubles Ahead
DONALD SASSOON The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe, by David Marquand. Europe's killing fields
Paul Jankowski Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin, by Timothy Snyder. Memoirs of a repentant Stalinist
Oliver Bullough Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir, by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky (edited and translated by Deborah Kaple). Doing God in America
Gianfranco Pasquino American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. Blair's journey: bowels, balls and getting to grips
James E. Cronin A Journey: My Political Life, by Tony Blair.     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article: Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy. By Donald Savoie. Administrative Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: Towards Public Sector Reform in Post-Communist Societies. Joachim Jens Hesse, ed. Before the Shooting Begins: Searching for Democracy in America's Culture Wars. By James Davison Hunter. Social Security and Medicare: A Policy Primer. By Eric R. Kingson and Edward D. Berkowitz. The Political Psychology of the Gulf War: Leaders, Publics and the Process of Conflict. Stanley A. Renshon, ed.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Shock! Horror! America shocks Europe
 DONALD SASSOON The Shock of America. Europe and the Challenge of the Century, by David Ellwood. Greedy grey voters?
 David Metz Going Grey: the Mediation of Politics in an Ageing Society, by Scott Davidson. How to hate Muslims in America
 Tahir Abbas The Islamophobia Industry: How the Far Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims, by Nathan Lean. Planning urban blight
 Joseph Rykwert A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain, by Owen Hatherley. The self‐appointed imperial umpire
 Andrew Johnstone American Umpire, by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman. Daddy knows best?
 Dick Pountain Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly. Advice to (male) politicians: keep trousers zipped up
 Dick Leonard Intimate Politics: Publicity, Privacy and the Personal Lives of Politicians in Media‐Saturated Democracies, by James Stanyer. Christians and Muslims facing the world
 Alessandra Cecolin Christian Response to Islam. Muslim–Christian relations in the modern world, edited by Anthony O'Mahony and Emma Loosley. The sweet charms of the upper‐class voice
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Unheavenly Chorus. Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy, by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady. Integration, again: the Frenchness of a British nationalist
 Daniel Gordon The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post‐War Immigration, by David Goodhart.     

The restructuring process in central and Eastern Europe: Business strategies for EC companies

The completion of the EC Single Market and the opening of Central and Eastern Europe constitute major changes in the European business environment which challenge companies to develop new business strategies. The Single Market will be one marketplace, but Central and Eastern Europe has to be treated completely differently, in some respects on a country‐by‐country basis. Based on personal interviews with Eastern European business people, this article describes and analyses the opportunities for EC companies. On the basis of this analysis a business strategy for Central and Eastern Europe is outlined.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Travails of Opposition
MARK GARNETT The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale. Labour's travails
Richard Briand Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party, by Martin Pugh. Anti‐social behaviour? Dial 101
Paul Michael Garrett The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics, by Stuart Waiton. Surviving nukes in one's back garden
Victoria Honeyman After the Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Britain 1945–68, by Matthew Grant. Israel's foundation myths
Richard Kuper The Invention of the Jewish People, by Shlomo Sand, (trans. Yael Lotan). Political science mission statement
Gianfranco Pasquino The Oxford Handbook of Political Science, edited by Robert E. Goodin. Sir Ian Blair: the Burkean top cop
Ian Loader Policing Controversy, by Ian Blair. To intervene or not to intervene?
Daniele Archibugi Humanitarian Intervention, by Michael Newman. A phenomenal trade unionist
Geoffrey Goodman Arthur Horner: A Political Biography. Vol. 1: 1918–1944; Vol. 2: 1944–1968, by Nina Fishman.     

Public enemies

He is author most recently of Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this article: Labour: Professionalism and Internal Democracy
JAMES E. CRONIN Building New Labour: The Politics of Party Organisation, by Meg Russell Cuba: Miserable Happiness? Cuba: A New History, by Richard Gott
Maurice Walsh Yeh but no but
Robert Colls The Politics of Identity. Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference, by Michael Kenny Does economic growth help the poor?
Norman Flynn The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime, by Jeffrey Sachs, with a Foreword by Bono Jews for dialogue
Ann Jungmann A Tale of Love and Happiness, by Amos Oz. Vintage A modest proposal
James Cornford Magnificent Vision: The Right to Work, by Alan Whitford Churchill's righting history
John Rams den In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War, by David Reynolds     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. ‘We can't go on as we are’
Donald Sassoon Mammon's Kingdom. A Essay on Britain, Now, by David Marquand. Superpower no more
Gianfranco Pasquino Good‐Bye Hegemony! Power and Influence in the Global System, by Simon Reich and Richard Ned Lebow. The real professionals: The NGOs
Matthew Grant The Politics of Expertise: How NGOs Shaped Modern Britain, by Matthew Hilton, James McKay, Nicholas Crowson and Jean‐François Mouhot. Good‐bye democracy
Tony Wright Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy, by Peter Mair. The joys of scraps
Joseph Rykwert Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion‐Dollar Trash Trade, by Adam Minter. Making Thatcherism possible
Robert Taylor Crisis? What Crisis? The Callaghan Government and the British Winter of Discontent by John Shepherd. Love in the time of capitalism
Stella Tillyard Why Love Hurts. A Sociological Explanation, by Eva Illouz You want to see how we live? We live like dogs.
Victoria Brittain Refugees of the Revolution. Experiences of Palestinian Exile, by Diana Allan. From the haven of care to community care
Lindsay Duguid The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, by Barbara Taylor. Serving the Prime Minister
Catherine Haddon At Power's Elbow. Aides to the Prime Minister from Robert Walpole to David Cameron, by Andrew Blick and George Jones. Narrative bombshells
Duncan Kelly The War That Ended Peace, by Margaret Macmillan Catastrophe, by Max Hastings. July 1914, by Sean McMeeckin.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Making the Market Behave
COLIN CROUCH The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition and the Common Good, by Robert H. Frank. The Oil‐rich Revolutionary
Maurice Walsh Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, by Richard Gott. Demonising Muslims
Victoria Brittain Pointing The Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media, edited by Julian Petley and Robin Richardson. The Strange Non‐death of Multiculturalism
Karim Murji Multiculturalism: A Very Short Introduction, by Ali Rattansi. What did Atatürk Read?
Rifat Kandiyoti Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography, by M. Sükrü Hanioglu. Muddling through the Constitution (Again)
Ben Yong The Coalition and the Constitution, by Vernon Bogdanor Lefty Brits on a Visit to China in 1954
Matthew Grant Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China, by Patrick Wright. American Republicans may Harm Your Health
Gianfranco Pasquino Why Some Politicians are More Dangerous than Others, by James Gilligan. The Possible Death of American Imperialism
Vassilis K. Fouskas Rethinking Imperialism, by Ray Kiely. Neoliberalism Lives On
Michael Rustin The Strange Non‐death of Neoliberalism, by Colin Crouch.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. The Doubting President
SELINA CHEN The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, by Barack Obama. Old age and new economics
David Metz The Age of Aging: How Demographics are Changing the Global Economy and Our World, by George Magnus. Vindicating the state
Gianfranco Pasquino In Government We Trust: Market Failure and the Delusions of Privatisation, by Warvick Funnell, Robert Jupe and Jane Andrew. Italian communists and the USSR
Maud Anne Bracke Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography, by Aldo Agosti. Antisemitism in the hall of mirrors
Brian Klug Globalising Hatred: The New Antisemitism, by Denis MacShane. Taking on the sceptics
Rosemary Bechler Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Approach, by Gillian Brock. Financial scandals: the lessons from France
Robert Boyce Shades of Indignation: Political Scandals in France, Past and Present, by Paul Jankowski: Berghahn. Fewer Willys but more consensus
Matthew Grant Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom, 1951–1970, by Brian Harrison. The crunching of classical economics
Paul Auerbach The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about It, by Robert J Shiller. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Life and Times of Neo‐Cons
THOMAS BENDER Neo‐conservatism: The Biography of a Movement, by Justin Vaïsse (translated by Arthur Goldhammer). The two faces of British Liberalism
Robert Taylor The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945, edited by Kevin Hickson. Labour and Liberals: opportunities lost, opportunities taken
Richard Briand Parties and People: England (1914–51), by Ross McKibbin. Do political personalities really matter?
Gianfranco Pasquino The Personalization of Politics: A Study of Parliamentary Democracies, by Lauri Karvonen. The politics of economics
John Grahl The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession, by Andrew Gamble. The successes of organised crime: the case of Naples
Ombretta Ingrascì Storia della camorra, by Francesco Barbagallo. Dismal days are here again?
Paul Auerbach Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, by Nouriel Roubini with Stephen Mihm.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Refugees and migrants: the globalisation of indifference
 VICTORIA BRITTAIN Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control, by Bridget Anderson. Borderline Justice. The Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights, by Frances Webber. Bad News for Refugees, by Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald. The Walking, by Laleh Khadivi. North Korea: as mysterious as ever
 Seung‐Young Kim Only Beautiful, Please. A British Diplomat in North Korea, by John Everard. World government and realistic utopianism
 Richard Mullender Governing the World: The History of an Idea, by Mark Mazower. Good ol’1970s
 Patrick Diamond Reassessing 1970s Britain, edited by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton and Pat Thane. Progressive Capitalism: How to Achieve Economic Growth, Liberty and Social Justice, by David Sainsbury. Oh why, oh why, oh why?
 Dick Leonard The Blunders of our Governments, by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe. The social basis of electoral reform
 Geoff Kennedy Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth‐Century West, by Dennis Pilon. Context rules over electoral rules
 Gianfranco Pasquino Electoral Systems and Political Context, by Robert G. Moser and Ethan Scheiner. Lacan et al. in post‐apartheid South Africa
 Saul Dubow (Post)Apartheid Conditions. Psychoanalysis and Social Formation, by Derek Hook. The expansion of same‐sex marriage
 Donna Smith The Same Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies. International Norms and Domestic Policy Change, by Kelly Kollman. Hollywood and the politics of stars
 Mark Glancy Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, by Steven J. Ross. Gladstone in the left corner, Disraeli in the right
 Richard Briand The Great Rivalry: Gladstone and Disraeli, by Dick Leonard. Loving the Lords?
 Lord Lipsey (David Lipsey) The Contemporary House of Lords. Westminster Bicameralism Revived, by Meg Russell.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The Casual Cruelty of the Tabloids
JOHN LLOYD Journalism for Democracy, by Geraldine Muhlmann, translated by Jean Birrell. ‘Who now remembers the Circassians?’
Jad Adams ‘Let Our Fame Be Great’: Journeys among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, by Oliver Bullough. A meaty slab of Supermac
Peter Catterall Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan, by D. R. Thorpe. Hamas: good works in Gaza
Victoria Brittain Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector, by Sara Roy. The minister as a hero of our time
Ben Yong Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities, by Patrick Weller and Anne Tiernan. The incoherence of market freedom
Geoff Kennedy The Invention of Market Freedom, by Eric MacGilvray. Chav‐hate and the ‘children of pride’
Richard Mullender Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, by Owen Jones. The slippery world of democracy
Richard Bourke Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth‐century Europe, by Jan Werner‐Müller.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. The dark side of the Chinese economic miracle
MARINA LEWYCKA Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, by Hsiao‐Hung Pai. Neoliberalism yesterday and today (and tomorrow?)
Gianfranco Pasquino Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear. From Absolutism to Neo‐Conservatism, by Marc Mulholland. Masters of the Universe. Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics, by Daniel Stedman Jones. The death of civility
Richard Kuper Occupation Diaries, by Raja Shehadeh. The not‐so‐new economy of the WWW
Maurice Walsh Misunderstanding the Internet, by James Curran, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman. The ever‐changing Conservatives?
Richard Briand The Conservatives since 1945: The Drivers of Party Change, by Tim Bale. Inequality is bad for growth
Paul Auerbach Plutocrats. The Rise of the New Global Super Rich, by Chrystia Freeland Surviving the Gulag
Geoffrey Roberts The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin, by Stephen F. Cohen. Promises, promises: hyping the new biology
Brian Butterworth Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology, by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. ‘It's Inequality, Stupid!’
PHILIP ARMSTRONG AND BOB SUTCLIFFE Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram G. Rajan. Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, by Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller. Politics without power
Richard Briand A Walk‐On Part, by Chris Mullin. Debunking Afghan myths
Joanna Buckley Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, by Jonathan Steele. The way after the Third Way
Patrick Diamond Social Democracy and Capitalism in the Knowledge Age, by Jenny Andersson. Latin America: the left returns
Richard Gott The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, by George Philip and Francisco Panizza. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left, edited by Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts. The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left, by Emir Sader, translated by Iain Bruce. (Re)inventing political culture?
Gianfranco Pasquino Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power, by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. When the middle began to be squeezed
Dick Pountain Winner‐Take‐All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson. Italy: endlessly resisting
John Foot The Legacy of the Italian Resistance, by Philip Cooke. Plus ça change …
Mark Garnett Eighteenth‐century British Premiers: Walpole to the Younger Pitt, by Dick Leonard. Gridlock or peak travel?
David Metz Gridlock Nation, by Kwasi Kwarteng and Jonathan Dupont. TINA (there is no etc.): the sequel
Jim Tomlinson UK Economy: The Crisis in Perspective, edited by Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Social democracy: Is there any hope left?
 HELEN THOMPSON Making Capitalism Fit for Society, by Colin Crouch. And once again: Social democracy, what is to be done?
 Michele Di Donato Progressive Politics after the Crash. Governing from the Left, edited by Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond and Michael McTernan. The surge of ‘post‐ism’: no more comprehensive solutions?
 Derek Hook Psychoanalysis and Social Involvement. Interpretation and Action, by Uri Hadar. A voice from Wales: Unionism, Scotland and the case for federalism
 Jonathan Bradbury The Reformed Union, The UK as a Federation, by David Melding. Democracies don't bluff
 Gianfranco Pasquino The Confidence Trap. A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present, by David Runciman. The revolutionary Pankhurst
 June Hannam Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire, by Katherine Connelly. Orwell, the patriotic rebel
 Lindsay Duguid George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls. Getting on and getting old
 Brian Groombridge Out of Time. The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal. Alan Johnson: the genuine (working‐class) article?
 D. J. Taylor This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood, by Alan Johnson.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books reviewed in this issue. Once Upon a Time in America
NINA FISHMAN Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath, by Bob Blauner. Don't blame Bush on Strauss
Lars Fischer The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss, edited by Steven B. Smith. Afghanistan: not a barbarous country of savage people
Grahame Hunter Butcher and Bolt: Two Hundred Years of Foreign Entanglement in Afghanistan, by David Loyn. Protesting is good for you
Ilaria Favretto Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits: How Protest Creates Communities, by Donatella della Porta and Gianni Piazza. The Internet: a school for life?
Brian Groombridge Learning through Life: Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, by Tom Schuller and David Watson. The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy, by Stephen Coleman and Jay G. Blumler. Right‐wing spectres
Vassilis Fouskas Twenty‐First Century Populism: The Spectre of Western European Democracy, edited by Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell. Macmillan: the unflappable politician?
Peter Catterall Harold Macmillan, by Charles Williams.